Just spent an hour following all the links to the original obits. The man sure could write.

Criminalizing use of Click Farms. Be interesting if the charges stick, and how it will impact the SEO market.

It’s too bad the City hasn’t figured out what to do with mid-Market buildings since the pandemic. Before Twitter moved in, the place was a dead zone. For a few years there was activity, but it’s slowly turning back into an area you quickly walk through on your way somewhere else.

I’m 15m into listening to this podcast and I want to throw the f’ing phone at the wall.

This guy is beyond arrogant, supercilious, and non-self-reflective. He refuses to admit any culpability for anything he said or did around 2016 or anything since then. He’s angry at being called on it and blames everyone else (especially liberals) for being too stupid to have really understood the bad numbers he was pumping out.

And to top it off, he’s joined a Peter Thiel funded speculative betting company: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/07/17/polymarket-hires-nate-silver-after-taking-in-265m-of-bets-on-us-election-report/

Having typed this, screw it, I’m throwing my phone against the wall.

I once worked at a division of a large company that held daily standups, weekly check-ins, two week sprints, retros, pre-planning, pre-pre-planning, and post-mortems. They had burndown charts and stories and backlogs. A substantial portion of a day was spent in meetings, prepping for meetings, or book-keeping (updating progress charts). There were architecture review boards, security reviews checklists, and manager planning meetings.

And they put out exactly zero products in three years.

When I first joined, I went around and asked everyone what they were doing, why, and how they felt about it. Nobody really knew, but blamed the previous crew who were long gone, and they hated it.

Management takeaway was that things weren’t right, so they hired these high-priced consultants to hold more agile training sessions. A whole week of all tech hands doing nothing but sitting in training. I left the week before it began.

“Where’s my Sharpie?”

All they had to do was look at pollution levels during the early days of the pandemic when people stopped commuting and driving as much. It was plain to see that smog levels in cities went down significantly.